Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms. — Krystle D'Souza Copy Share Image
I'm not usually superstitious, but I really hope 13/13/13 isn't a Friday — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Somehow, despite all the science homebrewing requires, I’d become irrationally superstitious.” — Lucy Burningham Copy Share Image
If you were to pass a funeral procession on Friday the 13th, you will die the very next day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
“wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Modern man is exposed to an almost unceasing “noise,” the noise of the radio, television, headlines, advertising, the movies, most of which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“People who grew up in the Ozark Mountains are among the most superstitious group in American history. Their intuitions generally involved things… — Rolland Love Copy Share Image
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
